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Group: alt.comp.freeware · Group Profile
Author: »Q«
Date: Aug 12, 2008 22:37

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:22:11 GMT
Bear Bottoms gmai.com> wrote:
> »Q« gmx.net> wrote in news:20080812145019.4472c146
> @bellgrove.remarqs.net:
>
>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:28:15 GMT
>> Bear Bottoms gmai.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I witnessed attempts by some to impose the glossary
>>
>> No, you didn't.
>>
>>> and it's wording is more like a rule set without disclaimers.
>>> The ACF Faq is clearly not.
>>
>> The glossary, like any glossary, is a list of words with
>> definitions, nothing at all like a set of rules. The faq written
>> by "Me Here" has questions and answers about what can and can't be
>> posted here (which he plans to change to should/shouldn't), which
>> is much much more like a set of rules than any glossary could be.
>>
>> Of course nobody has to obey his rules, but that's usually a reason
>> for you to call something meaningless and ask what the point of it
>> is.
>
> Can you have discourse without sniping?

I thought you might want to try to explain away what looks a lot like
hypocrisy on your part, but I guess you don't.
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